PM2.5 pollutants will be closely monitored in 2019 in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the Yangtze River Delta and the Fenhe and Weihe plains in Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces, the Chinese environmenta…

A mother and her daughter look out the window of a train at the Luoyang railway station in Central China's Henan Province. About 3 billion trips are expected to be made during this year's Spring Festi…

China's long-delayed plan to collect property tax, one of the country's biggest efforts to curb a swelling real estate market, could make headway this year, according to a top tax law expert in China.…

Sansha Yongle Dragon Hole, which is 300.89 meters deep, is now officially the deepest ocean blue hole in the world, China's National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center (NMEFC) announced on its We…

US media's report of China's Uyghur woman Mihrigul Tursun is a totally deliberate lie, and foreign media and the US government should cease tarnishing China's ethnic policy lest they embarrass themsel…

Stability is highlighted in the annual government report of Northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Its official vowed to carry out measures to combat terrorism, extremism, and to maintai…

China’s Ministry of Commerce has accepted an offer made by Brazilian chicken exporters to resolve a dumping dispute, a lawyer told Reuters on Monday. Claudia Marques, a partner at MPA Trade Law who re…

Big US cities have shielded their residents from the impact of China’s decision last year to curtail the solid waste it will accept from other countries. But rural and small-town residents are startin…

The Chinese government has granted Ivanka Trump’s company preliminary approval for another five trademarks this month, as her father’s administration pushes ahead on trade negotiations with China. Fou…

The International Monetary Fund has cut its forecast for world economic growth this year, citing heightened trade tensions and rising interest rates in the United States. The IMF said on Monday it exp…

The United States is fast approaching the deadline for formally requesting the extradition of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, whose detention has prompted a serious diplomatic dispute between Canada an…

Archaeologists have unearthed the ruins of a mint that is believed to have been used to produce coins 2,000 years ago in central China. The workshop was discovered at the site of an ancient government…

Taiwan export orders posted the steepest decline in 32 months in December, foreshadowing a steep slowdown in manufacturing economies around Asia through the first half of the year as they face the spi…

China’s outbound investment and construction plunged last year as the world’s second largest economy loses steam, and continued “financial strain” could put the brakes on its global trade and infrastr…

Nearly a third of all preschool centres in Hong Kong had by Monday night reported a flu outbreak and suspended classes for a week. That came after 67 more kindergartens and childcare centres joined th…

The trio running to lead the student union at Hong Kong’s oldest university were grilled on their political stances on Monday, in another campus controversy over the city’s independence. The three stu…

Hong Kong customs is facing mounting pressure to step up prosecutions in the illegal wildlife trade, with a recent report finding the city has become a hub for such activities as cases occur almost da…

Dazzling circles of fireworks in the shape of a pig’s nose and the rings of Saturn will wow revellers as Hong Kong celebrates the arrival of the Lunar New Year next month. Some 23,888 pyrotechnic shel…

Hong Kong’s Financial Services Development Council, the brain child of the city’s previous chief executive, is looking to hire an executive director to lead a team from a rented office in Central as i…

The decomposing carcasses of two juvenile finless porpoise were found in Hong Kong on Monday, the latest in a spate of such incidents in the past three weeks. Ocean Park Conservation Foundation receiv…

A Hong Kong cleaner was arrested on Monday after a 24-year-old mainland Chinese woman was killed by a falling window from a 16th floor hotel room in the city’s busy shopping district of Tsim Sha Tsui.…

The Chinese owner of Lotus plans to start producing the British sports car brand in China for the first time with the opening of a new 9 billion yuan (US$1.3 billion) factory in Wuhan, company job adv…

US President Donald Trump is likely to move ahead with tariffs on imported vehicles, a move that could prompt the European Union to agree a new trade deal, says Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charl…

CHINESE Vice Premier Liu He will travel to the United States for trade talks later this month, the commerce ministry said yesterday. Liu will visit Washington on January 30 and 31 for the negotiations…

THE winter Alps are an appropriately chilly backdrop for the World Economic Forum in Davos next week as the world witnesses a growing backlash against globalization. Some members of the forum may reme…

The Committee for the Development of Conventions and Exhibitions is holding its first plenary ordinary meeting of the year last week, calling on industry players to enhance its competitiveness. Chairm…

Your dog’s liver and pancreas work together to make the digestion process run smoothly and efficiently. The liver stores essential Vitamins A,D,E and K and it produces bile, which is crucial to the br…

A motorcycle rider, Ms San, aged 52, who was a Macau Daily Times staffer for over 11 years, died on Friday around 5:46 a.m. due to an accident at Ponte da Amizade. According to information by the Publ…

A group of about 300 investors from Macau, Hong Kong and mainland China have lost a total of 400 million yuan (USD59 million) after plans to develop a sprawling shopping center in Zhuhai were allegedl…

A Malaysian court has ruled in favor of Wynn Macau in a case of a fund manager, who owed the casino’s operator millions of dollars, according to a report by Reuters. This is the first such case in the…

The trial involving a group of 15 people, including Malaysian businessman Paul Phua, known for his connections to the gambling underworld starts today, Radio Macau reported. The defendants are accused…

“Sadness” (默 Mò), released in 2015 by Na Ying 那英, is not as much a song as it is an atmosphere of sadness and desolation built on a foundation of strength. It’s a triumph of somber lyrics and controll…

The China Sports Column is a SupChina weekly feature in which China Sports Insider Mark Dreyer looks at the week that was in the China sports world. The good news is that China is safely through to th…

This week’s Sinica Podcast is now live. This week on Sinica, Kaiser and Jeremy chat with Christina Larson, a science and technology reporter for the Associated Press, about a major story that her team…

Wang Yexiao, age 32, from Hegang, Heilongjiang Province, has filmed himself performing “surgery” on all kinds of fruit, including grapes, mangoes, bananas, and durian. As a doctor, he said he wanted t…

Luckin Coffee, founded in November 2017, already has 2,000 offline stores and grand ambitions to surpass Starbucks in China. It recently announced plans to open another 2,500 stores in 2019, which wou…

The Trump administration has disrupted a longstanding bipartisan consensus on U.S. policy toward China, which it viewed as overly timid and insufficiently robust in responding to China’s excesses. Alt…

By OuyangHao Chinese State Councilor and Defense Minister General Wei Fenghe meets with Chan Yeng Kit, the visiting Permanent Secretary of the Singaporean Ministry of Defense in Beijing on the morning…

Laotian President Bounnhang Vorachit (R) met with visiting Admiral Miao Hua, member of China's Central Military Commission in Vientiane in the afternoon of January 19th. VIENTIANE, LAOS, Jan. 21 (Chin…

VIENTIANE, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- The handover and opening ceremony of the China-aided comprehensive medical building of Lao Military Hospital 103 has been held in Lao capital Vientiane. This comprehensi…

The Chinese economy grew 6.6% last year, according to official figures released on Monday, slowing from 6.8% in 2017 and marking the slowest yearly rate since 1990, Reuters reports. Gross domestic pro…

Funds focused on Chinese equities saw their weakest performance since the global financial crisis last year, after slowing growth and a slump in the technology sector pulled down mainland company list…

Things are getting tougher for China’s flagship international telecommunications firm. Not only is the CEO’s daughter detained in Canada pending extradition to the United States, but Poland charged th…

It is becoming trendy and vital for brands to make products debut on Alibaba's B2C e-commerce platform Tmall. Tmall also makes great efforts to help brands speed up the average product incubation cycl…

Overall, the market penetration of social networking reached 99.7% in September 2018, with the average daily active users hitting 730 million. WeChat, QQ, and Weibo are the top 3. Tencent News and Tou…

The online travel market in China grew by 9.3% to US$39.25 billion in Q3 2018, driven by the summer vacation and the mid-autumn festival holiday. 68.6% of transactions are generated from online transp…

Individual agents (Daigou), who frequently promote products on WeChat Moment or sell products in live streaming and short videos, all share a new name “e-commerce business operators” as Taobao and JD.…

Tattoo culture has exploded in China in the last few years, as the country’s younger generations abandon centuries-old prejudices against the practice and embrace it as an expression of individuality.…

Pronouncements that the Belt and Road Initiative is failing are premature, argues Tom Miller, author of China’s Asian Dream and Senior Asia Analyst at Gavekal Research. He is well-versed in the proble…

What a difference a year makes. Last summer, there was a sense of unstoppable momentum behind the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), China’s trillion-dollar plan to build a network of infrastructure conn…

Compared to other sectors, Chinese e-commerce firms are among the first batches of firms to embrace automation. China accounts for nearly half of global demand for AGVs, enabling one warehouse to proc…

Online data theft is rife in China, affecting more than 80% of Internet users, and tech companies often display a cavalier attitude to using people’s personal information. But things may change. In Ma…

Learning how to please Chinese audiences without alienating moviegoers in the US is becoming crucial for Hollywood as box office receipts stagnate in home market but explode in China. Quarterly ticket…

Since opening, Jiangnan has continuously engaged in the construction, maintenance, and modification of a wide range of commercial and People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) vessels. Analysis conducted b…

The automation of processes and procedures with cutting-edge technologies, such as advanced robotics and artificial intelligence, has the potential to fundamentally change the global economy. As China…

China’s economic modernization has created ripe conditions for commercial aviation to blossom. The industry’s emergence has not only enabled individuals to travel and exchange ideas, but it has likewi…

The drama continues with the final arrivals of European Jewish refugees into Shanghai in 1941-42. Afterwards, the China option, that had previously served as a safety net for Jews seeking refuge far f…

In this third episode in a series examining the history of the Jewish refugees who found sanctuary on the east coast of China, the focus is on escalating events in Europe in 1938-1939. With the consol…

Laszlo is back with a new series that looks at the history of the Jewish refugees who came to China during the first part of the twentieth century. In this episode, after a long drawn out intro that e…

We China expats complain a lot. It’s pretty often that you hear people talking about “the worst thing” or “the hardest thing” about living in China. You hear complaints about the food, cultural issues…

Way back in 2015 I recommended the Outlier Dictionary of Chinese Characters for Pleco. It’s been a while, but the team has been busy. They’ve been continuously adding to their character dictionary, an…

The Intermediate Chinese Grammar Wiki Book is available: in print (on Amazon) as a Kindle ebook as an iBooks ebook It’s really been a ton of work editing, rewriting, and reworking all kinds of interme…

I spotted this ad on the Shanghai Metro: The name of the service is 盟盟 (and apparently all the good domain names have been taken for that one). You can see how the “盟” character blends nicely into the…

The China Daily recently interviewed Felipe Garcia, Commercial Counselor of the Mexican Embassy in Beijing regarding Mexico-China relations. The gist of the interview was that Mexico-China relations w…

Despite the federal government shutdown, there have been a couple of recent developments regarding the Section 301 tariffs imposed by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (“USTR”) on a broad ra…

Two of my firm’s Spain lawyers are in town this week and they yesterday explained to us the advantages for foreign countries to form Spain entities before going into Latin America and the Caribbean. T…

Mergermarket, a leading U.S. mergers data reporter just published its global M&A report for 2018, revealing that investments from China in U.S. businesses fell by 95% as compared to 2016. A summary of…

Euler Hermes, the German credit insurance company, recently released its bankruptcy filing projections for 2019 here. The Report states that bankruptcies worldwide increased by 10% in 2018 and it proj…

It’s often been said that the 21st century will belong to Asia. Sports wise we’ve already seen the football world cup hosted by South Korea and Japan in 2002, the Olympics in Beijing in 2008 and the R…

China’s advertising industry is increased very fast, thanks to rising of the demands of the consumers. Unlike many Western and other countries of the world, television is not the biggest source of adv…

Bottom line: Xiaomi’s stock is probably oversold at current levels due to selling at the end of a lockup period, but will remain an underpeformer for at least the next 1-2 years until it can prove its…

Bottom line: A US prosecutor’s decision not to file rape charges against JD.com’s founder may bring short-term relief to the stock, but the case still shows the importance of understanding the unusual…

Bottom line: The US case against Huawei’s CFO is likely to end with her release on technical grounds as part of a deal between the US and China, though the company could still face punishment for ille…

Bottom line: Huawei’s new push into India looks like a smart and well-timed move to take advantage of the country’s emerging middle class, and could help it take the global smartphone crown by the end…

Bottom line: A major new campaign calling on Google to abandon its plan to return to China’s search market will add pressure on the company to reconsider its decision, but is unlikely to succeed unles…

Bottom line: China’s drive to boost imports will benefit the nation’s big e-commerce companies with cross-border trade capabilities, though such purchasing will still be a small fraction of their over…

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China’s 2019 Ecommerce Laws were finally announced in late November. The laws have increased the single purchase limit from ¥ ... The post The Complete China Cross Border Ecommerce List appeared first…

China's new draft Foreign Investment Law aims to further open up its markets and address complaints that have been prevalent among foreign investors. The post China’s Draft Foreign Investment Law: Goo…

Hukou is a legal document in China that records a holder’s household registration and basic personal information. Learn how it determines access to jobs and benefits. The post China’s Hukou System: Wh…

Comprehensive bonded zones in China will now benefit from an expanded scope of business activity and services that open access to its domestic market. The post China to Permit Domestic Sales from Bond…

China’s new Individual Income Tax (IIT) law came into effect on January 1, introducing new tax brackets and a slew of other changes to the country’s IIT system. The post China’s IIT Law Updates: Six-Y…

Investors seeking a competitive edge have many reasons to move their business. We discuss what factors influence the decision to relocate in China. The post Relocating a Business in China: The Most Co…

THE QUESTION ABOUT the economy is not whether it is slowing, which it has been for many years as authorities manage the rebalancing of the economy, but whether the pace of the deceleration has suddenl…

THERE IS NOT much comfort to be drawn from the latest monthly trade statistics. The 4.4% year-on-year fall in exports for December to $221.25 billion, and 7.6% decline in imports to $164.2 billion wer…

ECONOMIC GROWTH IS expected to decelerate to 6.2% this year from an estimated 6.5% in 2018, and trend towards 6% thereafter, according to the new edition of the World Bank’s Global Economic Prospects.…

THERE IS MUCH to digest in the official reports of the annual Central Economic Work Conference just concluded in Beijing. In short, every available policy tool will be thrown at stabilising slowing gr…

IT IS NOT just the raw growth in the size of China’s economy, impressive though that has been over the 40 years since Deng Xiaoping announced the economic reforms that opened up of the country, now be…

Floating like pearls in the blue ocean, the islands of the Pacific seem exotic and mysterious locations. Some, such as Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, are covered in luxuriant forests and ho…

Last week Hurricane Michael became one of the strongest ever hurricanes to make landfall in the United States. Fed by the unusually warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, Michael hit Florida in the Southe…

Brazil’s bid to host international climate talks in 2019 (COP25) made significant progress last week, even as the country seemed poised to elect Jair Bolsonaro. The extreme right-wing presidential can…

*Updated Sept. 27 CoalSwarm published a report on September 26 warning that 259 gigawatts of coal power capacity – equivalent to the entire coal power fleet of the United States – is being built in Ch…

Golf was first introduced into China in 1916, and then in 1917, the Shanghai Hongqiao Golf Association has been brought into operation. By the mid-1980s, Golf rose in mainland China and developed at a…

In the historical leap of the great power’s rise, China, from a learner to a leader, steps into the world stage on its own means, heading for renaissance with the tremendous “China’s power”! The... Th…

When you decide to go to some most visited tourist places in China you have to learn about some important guide about the country. Exploring countries like China can be the most exotic and... The post…

We all know China is famous for martial arts, whether kung fu movies or the amazing feats displayed by Shaolin Warrior Monks. As a result ever increasing numbers of foreigners from all over the... The…

I lived a year in China, as student and as an English teacher. I remember a lot of things from my stay in China, but I’ve listed out the 5 things that struck me... The post 5 Striking Facts About Chin…

Here is a reading list of the must-read China books in selected genre including The Four Chinese Classics, Culture, Geopolitics, Politics, Corporate and Business, Economics, Personal Perspectives, Soc…

Did you know that China has some 52 sites listed under UNESCO World Heritage? Ranging from ancient wonders to natural wonders, you’ll be amazed once more by some that you will know, and some that many…

Want to learn more about China? Learn to speak Chinese? How about listening to the latest views of China watchers, political figures, and current affairs in China? Well, here is my pick of the top 40+…

When it comes to traveling in China in 2019, most tourist opt to either fly or hop on a train. The reasoning is quite simple: flying is fast and trains are cheap. There are times, however, when China’…

If you’re looking for a 2019 China Public Holiday calendar, you can make note of the dates from either the list below as well as the downloadable calendar. These Chinese National holiday dates include…

At the beginning of 2019, the U.S. State Department issued a Level 2 Travel Advisory for citizens traveling to China. The message was simple: exercise increased caution as you plan your trip to China.…

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A Canadian citizen residing in China suffered three weeks of hell inside a local jail for making insensitive remarks about the country on WeChat. Not only was he sent back home without his Chinese wif…

Just recently, China’s top leader Xi Jinping emphasized at the commemorative meeting of the 40th anniversary of the publication of the Taiwan Compatriots, in Beijing, that he firmly opposed the two Ch…

A new poll of Taiwanese citizens shows that more than four-fifths of the islanders have no interest in their country being unified with China under the “One Country, Two Systems” policy. The survey co…

Thanks all for your useful advice regarding my 'In and out of China part 2' post. Visa Update: On the advice of a Chinese friend here in Boston I took my passport to a certain travel agency in Chinato…

This is pretty obscure.About five years ago I attended a performance on Kinmen Island by a Mainland Chinese troop. It featured a single person who acted out an entire story, taking all the parts, by r…

Hi,I will be landing in chendgu on March the 10th and have until the 31st to go back to it for my return flight. I plan on seeing the panda base in chendgu and then mainly visit Yunnan. My question is…

Hi yall, This is a really, really obscure question. A few years ago I traveled with my then girlfriend to Armenia and we visited the Karabach Republic, which is part of Armenia, but a contested territ…

At WildChina, we pride ourselves in providing the highest levels of luxury travel and adventure design, making the real China accessible and delivering life-changing experiences to people from all ove…

From the intricate paintings of classical China to revolutionary propaganda of the 20th century, art in China has both enjoyed and suffered from its intrinsic relationship with the country’s politics.…